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The Return of Eloquence — March 4, 2008

TDR Interview: Harry Lewis — February 8, 2008

What is a College Education? — September 27, 2007

Don't Get Converted. Stay. — September 27, 2007

Missing the Basics — June 2, 2005

Students Ignorant of Western Culture: Poll Shows Need for Core Curriculum — June 2, 2005

Two Roads Ever Diverge in a Wood: A Call for a Core Curriculum — June 2, 2005

Dr. Platt's Proposed Curriculum — June 2, 2005

The Path of Least Resistance — June 2, 2005

The Hollow Curriculum — June 2, 2005

English Department: Then and Now — June 2, 2005

TDR Interview: Colin Campbell — May 13, 2005

An Interview With Victor Davis Hanson — February 11, 2005

An Interview With Trustee T. J. Rodgers — June 11, 2004

Dartmouth's Worst Prof: Shelby Grantham — June 11, 2004

Grantham: Band-Aids are Racist — June 11, 2004

The Quotable Shelby Grantham — June 11, 2004

Rodgers Elected to the Board of Trustees: An In-Depth Interview With TJR — June 1, 2004

The New Academia: Whiteness Studies — October 8, 2003

What is a College Education? — September 30, 2003

TDR's Western Culture Primer — September 30, 2003

Courses of Note — September 30, 2003

The Beautiful: Dartmouth's Best Profs — September 30, 2003

...And the Damned: Dartmouth's Worst — September 30, 2003

Preparing the Fall: Dartmouth's Library Crisis — June 8, 2003

Sanborn Values — June 8, 2003

The Year I Rubbed Elbows With Stanley Fish — November 3, 2002

What is the 'West?' — October 15, 2002

Courses of Note — September 27, 2002

What is a College Education? — September 27, 2002

At the Twilight's Last Gleaming: Reflections on Academic Culture at Dartmouth — June 9, 2002

Academia in Review: Interview with Harvey Mansfield — June 9, 2002

Academia in Review: Interview with Jeffrey Hart — June 9, 2002

Dartmouth to Confer Honorary Degrees — May 29, 2002

The Idea of University: TDR Interview with Fr. George Rutler — May 13, 2002

TDR Interview: Harvey Mansfield — March 1, 2002

A Report from the Time Before Course Guides — March 1, 2002

Grades at Dartmouth: on the Rise — March 1, 2002

The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies: J. Lawrence Scholer Reviews 'Ivory Towers on Sand' — February 4, 2002

Philosophy in the 'Athens of the North' — December 3, 2001

Kwanzaa: the 'Path of Blackness' — December 3, 2001

Educatin in 'The Age of Now': Jeffrey Shaw Reviews 'Non Campus Mentis' — November 12, 2001

Four Millenia of Literary Utopias: From Plato to Orwell; J. Lawrence Scholer Reviews 'The Faber Book of Utopias' — November 12, 2001

Giving West a Shout Out: Alexander Talcott Reviews Cornell West's Rap Album — November 12, 2001

A Traditional Education, Online? — October 22, 2001

MultiCulturalism: Fact or Threat? — October 15, 2001

Tom Spence '83: Vox Clamantis — October 15, 2001

Salvaging Classical Studies: J. Lawrence Scholer Reviews 'Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age' — October 15, 2001

Alumni: Fight Student Brainwashing — October 15, 2001

TDR Interview: Jeffrey Hart — October 1, 2001

Jeffrey Hart: Outside the Ivory Tower — October 1, 2001

Smiling: The Classical Canon on Campus — October 1, 2001

Why Western Thought Still Matters: Stella Baer Reviews 'Shining Through the Cultural Catastrophe' — October 1, 2001

The CIDE Report: Diversity or Bust — September 17, 2001

Courses of Note: Dartmouth Course Guide to Freshmen — September 17, 2001

Where Blame Is Due — April 30, 2001

The Crisis of Academic Standards — April 30, 2001

A Jane For All Seasons — March 12, 2001

A Very Rare and Valuable Thing — February 26, 2001

Dartmouth's Racial Separatism — February 12, 2001

Spinning Their Wheels — February 12, 2001

Randy Testa Hates You — February 12, 2001

Back Door Quotas — February 12, 2001

Because You're a Racist! — February 12, 2001

More Funds for Gay Studies — January 15, 2001

A Call to Arms — January 15, 2001

Anthropology on Trial — October 30, 2000

The Battle of the Books: The great authors ignored — October 30, 2000

Gore's Computer Demagoguery — October 2, 2000

What's the Value of an Ivy Degree? — February 7, 2000

Trying and Failing to Go Home — July 8, 1999

The Fishtank, Destroyed — February 3, 1999

The Deconstruction of Duke English — February 3, 1999

Social Text: Fish's Other Flop — February 3, 1999

The Quick Fix: The Error of the New New Math — January 13, 1999

The Fuzziest of Disciplines — January 13, 1999

The New New Math, Applied — January 13, 1999

Dartmouth 2nd in Cultural Literacy — January 13, 1999

Somewhat Suspect Sages — November 17, 1998

Race, Writing and Manhood at Brown — November 17, 1998

Literature and Humanities at Columbia — November 17, 1998

Between Schylla and Charybdis — November 17, 1998

What is a College Education? — September 30, 1998

And the Damned: Dartmouth's Worst Professors — September 30, 1998

The Beautiful: Dartmouth's Best Professors — September 30, 1998

Some Noteworthy Courses — September 30, 1998

Theism, Atheism and the Divine — May 27, 1998

Loughran on the Divinity School — May 27, 1998

Inside the Twisted Steeple — May 27, 1998

What Is the Teaching College? — May 27, 1998

Research and Teaching: Compatible? — April 22, 1998

Prof. Noll on the Research University — April 22, 1998

Western Civilization: The Results Are In — April 22, 1998

Decon 101: Deconstructionism in Today's Literary Criticism — April 15, 1998

Summers on Deconstruction, Feminism — April 15, 1998

Navarro and Steinem's New Companion — April 15, 1998

Following the Herd — April 8, 1998

Dartmouth Ponders Ethnic Studies — April 8, 1998

Professor John Ellis Deconstructs — April 8, 1998

Idealism and Liberal Education: President Freedman's Little Book — June 4, 1997

Dartmouth's Great Courses — October 2, 1996

The Beautiful ... Dartmouth's Best Professors — October 2, 1996

.... And the Damned: Dartmouth's Worst Professors — October 2, 1996

The Meaning of Liberal Arts — June 12, 1996

Cannon, Culture, and Curriculum — June 12, 1996

Virgil, Where Are You? — May 22, 1996

What is a College Education? — May 22, 1996

The Classical Education: An Interview with Professor William Scott — May 22, 1996

Western Culture in the Ivy League — May 22, 1996

Core Classes at Dartmouth — May 22, 1996

Sound Body, Sound Mind — May 22, 1996

Slogans and Clichés — May 15, 1996

Western Dissent — May 15, 1996

Canon Fodder — May 15, 1996

Trends in General Education:An Interview with the President of the National Association of Scholars — May 15, 1996

Dartmouth Without the Core: A Prospectus of Courses for a Dartmouth '98 — May 15, 1996

What Dartmouth Knows— And What It Doesn't — May 15, 1996

Rally 'round the Core — May 1, 1996

Freedman Invictus — May 1, 1996

The Core Cirriculum — May 1, 1996

Columbia Professor on the Core and Columbia's Activist Legacy — May 1, 1996

Columbia's Protests: Western Canon Under the Microscope — May 1, 1996